What did you most spend your discretionary mental bandwidth thinking about in 2018?
What themes were playing on your mental screen saver?
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RocketBro CO2 emissions / Black soot in upper atmosphere.
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Hah at least I had the right initial instinct that pure hydrogen fueled rockets would be best.
But damn, one crisis at a time please. Stratospheric soot can take a number.
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Learning, how different crafts/professions have different creation/practice rhythms and frequencies, how that affects mental health / mastery outcomes, and whether a linked data tool can help people communicate at higher levels of abstraction. Learning and communicating.
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How to get the new sources of wealth in the digital era more evenly distributed.
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The progress of modernity, and modern progressivism, which I had assumed was moving forward with regular progress -- are recent political & social events just a fluctuation, or are they a repudiation. In simpler terms, are humans capable of belonging to very large tribes?
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No, they are not, without significant augmentation to their sense-making and meaning-making facilities. Bare individuals, absent a social matrix, are generally unable to handle to the full writhing mess of all that's going on.
TLDR: Yes, but only when organized into societies.
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Why deep learning works, nature of work around machines, where mathematical ideas live, what value is, India’s future
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